Regional Bureaus Buenos Aires Regional Bureau

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Role

The Buenos Aires Regional Bureau's role is to represent the General Secretariat in the South American region, and to ensure compliance with the Organization's core functions, including the use of its communications system, encouraging countries to use INTERPOL's databases, and providing operational police support.

Objectives

The Buenos Aires Regional Bureau's objective is to assist the 12 National Central Bureaus it serves in their day-to-day work, to strengthen and improve international police co-operation, and to co-operate with INTERPOL's governing bodies in order to facilitate their task.  The Bureau also seeks to foster co-operation and the exchange of information at regional level with other international bodies.

Activities

The Bureau provides co-operation and assistance in all areas of the fight against international crime.  Increased support for international police activities has taken various forms, in particular:  giving assistance to IMESTs (INTERPOL Major Event Support Teams) in the region;  carrying out operations such as Jupiter (intellectual property crime) and Andes (traffic in chemical precursors);  developing projects such as Project White Flow (intercontinental drug trafficking) in conjunction with the Harare and Abidjan Regional Bureaus, Project Seven Borders (vehicle theft), and Project Amazon (terrorism).  In addition, the contact officers network has been strengthened with the preparation of a protocol for providing support in fugitive investigations in the South American region.